R help - Dec 2021 - Puzzled about loading the Rattle interface package...

Evening folks:

Hope I'm in the right place to ask this.

Running R 4.1.2 on Linux Mint 19.3. I do have R Commander and R Studio
in place and working, so I'm not without choices for a GUI to use R.
However, I wanted to try out the Rattle interface.

The package installs OK, but it apparently needs the RGtk2 package to
run its graphic state. When I try to install that package I get the
following:
> install.packages("RGtk2")
Installing package into ?/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.36.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2792234 bytes (2.7 MB)
=================================================downloaded 2.7 MB

* installing *source* package ?RGtk2? ...
** package ?RGtk2? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for INTROSPECTION... no
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RGtk2?
* removing ?/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RGtk2?

The downloaded source packages are in
	?/tmp/Rtmphfaxc3/downloaded_packages?
Warning message:
In install.packages("RGtk2") :
  installation of package ?RGtk2? had non-zero exit
status
>
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to solve this. Any help would be
appreciated. Otherwise, I guess I'd be SOL for trying it out and fall
back to my existing two options.

Thanks...
-- 
Brian Lunergan
Russell, ON
Canada




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Hi Brian,
I have never tried Rattle but I did a quick search and found this link
which might give some clues.

https://book.huihoo.com/data-mining-desktop-survival-guide/Installing_GTK.html

Good luck,
Eric


On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 1:29 PM Brian Lunergan <ff809 at ncf.ca>
wrote:
>
> Evening folks:
>
> Hope I'm in the right place to ask this.
>
> Running R 4.1.2 on Linux Mint 19.3. I do have R Commander and R Studio
> in place and working, so I'm not without choices for a GUI to use R.
> However, I wanted to try out the Rattle interface.
>
> The package installs OK, but it apparently needs the RGtk2 package to
> run its graphic state. When I try to install that package I get the
> following:
>
> > install.packages("RGtk2")
> Installing package into ?/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1?
> (as ?lib? is unspecified)
> trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.36.2.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2792234 bytes (2.7 MB)
> =================================================> downloaded 2.7 MB
>
> * installing *source* package ?RGtk2? ...
> ** package ?RGtk2? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** using staged installation
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for INTROSPECTION... no
> checking for GTK... no
> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ?RGtk2?
> * removing ?/home/brian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/RGtk2?
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>         ?/tmp/Rtmphfaxc3/downloaded_packages?
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("RGtk2") :
>   installation of package ?RGtk2? had non-zero exit status
> >
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to solve this. Any help would be
> appreciated. Otherwise, I guess I'd be SOL for trying it out and fall
> back to my existing two options.
>
> Thanks...
> --
> Brian Lunergan
> Russell, ON
> Canada
>
>
>
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On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 19:33:25 -0500
Brian Lunergan <ff809 at ncf.ca> wrote:
> Running R 4.1.2 on Linux Mint 19.3.
> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
Thanks for mentioning your GNU/Linux distro! You need the libgtk2.0-dev
APT package installed in order to build the RGtk2 R package from
source. Alternatively, if you use the distro-built R (installed via
APT), you can install the r-cran-rgtk2 APT package and avoid building
the RGtk2 package from source.
 
Ask in the R-SIG-Debian mailing list if your problems continue.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan